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The US has seen a significant increase in student absenteeism since the pandemic closed schools four years ago, with an estimated 26% of public school students considered chronically absent in the last school year, up from 15% before the pandemic, acco… Continue reading Chronic Student Absenteeism Soars Across US
The latent potential for personal robotics became very real for me while I was strolling the halls of the 45th Bangkok International Motor Show this week. There are always good ideas at motor shows, except the good ideas at motor shows in developing re… Continue reading Ride-on Unicorn could be the “killer app” for kids
If necessity is the mother of invention, nostalgia must be its stepmother, or its aunt at the very least. The desire to recreate long-obsolete devices simply because they existed while …read more Continue reading A 65-in-1 the 2024 Way
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Last month there was a special Google-funded edition of Highlights for Children, the 77-year-old magazine targetting children between the ages of 6 and 12. This edition was based on Google’s “Be Internet Awesom… Continue reading Google Teams with ‘Highlights’, Shows How Goofus and Gallant Use the Internet
theodp writes: “Last year,” Ian Bogost writes in Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem, “18 percent of Stanford University seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the sa… Continue reading Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem
Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: Last October, tech-backed nonprofit Code.org publicly called out Indiana in its 2023 State of Computer Science Education report, advising the Hoosier state it needed to heed Code.org’s new policy recommendation a… Continue reading Indiana Becomes 9th State To Make CS a High School Graduation Requirement
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: We are often told that setting the bar high is key to success. After all, if you shoot for the moon and miss, at least you’ll land with the stars. But Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang wants privileged Gen Z gr… Continue reading Nvidia Founder Tells Stanford Students Their High Expectations May Make It Hard For Them To Succeed
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action in college admissions, there has been increased scrutiny on legacy admissions — the practice of giving special considerations to the relatives of alumni. Critics say this practice d… Continue reading Who Uses Legacy Admissions?
The University of Texas at Austin said Monday that it would again require standardized tests for admissions (non-paywalled source), becoming the latest selective university to reinstate requirements for SAT or ACT scores that were abandoned during the … Continue reading U. of Texas at Austin Will Return To Standardized Test Requirement
In this Help Net Security interview, Omkhar Arasaratnam, General Manager at the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), discusses the evolution of memory-safe programming languages and their emergence in response to the limitations of languages like… Continue reading Transitioning to memory-safe languages: Challenges and considerations